Freestanding handrails on their own posts, for paths, steps and driveways where there is no wall to fix to. Posts are set into the ground or bolted down to a hard surface. Stainless steel or galvanised and powdercoated steel, made to your length.
This is the decision that governs the job, and it is worth getting right before you order.
Concreted into the ground is the stronger of the two and the one to use on soft ground, gravel, soil or a grass verge. Posts are made longer, holes are dug, and the post is set in concrete. It takes longer, it means digging, and the post positions have to be set out accurately because there is no adjustment once the concrete goes off.
Base plated and bolted down suits an existing concrete path, a slab or a solid paved surface. Much quicker, no digging, and the rail can be lifted later if it ever needs to be. It is only as strong as what is under it, so it needs a decent thickness of concrete rather than slabs bedded on sand.
Tell us which at drawing stage and we will make the posts to suit. A run can use both where the ground changes along its length.
Made to your length in our own Sheffield workshop. If the rail also has to guard a drop of more than 600mm then it is a balustrade rather than a handrail, and you want our balustrade range instead.
This is made to order in our own Sheffield workshop, so it can just as easily be made to your dimensions instead. Send a photo and rough sizes and we will price it.
